Hatton's Beyer-Garratt

[Safety Engineer]

They have apparently extended he new year holiday by a week t prevent people travelling.


Martin

[Snowwolflair]

I give it two weeks before all of China is closed to the world and they will do it to themselves.

[honk843]

With the March Toddler there was a Hattons catalogue. No sign of the Garrett anywhere so I looked on the website and it is still there. BUT under N gauge Steam locos there are supposedly 5 items under "Hattons "Dreamlist" and under diesel and electric there are 12 items each as Dreamlist. There are no items specified however. Does anyone have any idea what Hattons are up to?

[Dickydcc]

Dream list has been on their site for ages, appeared shortly after the demise of DJM......

[Newportnobby]

Does anyone have any idea what Hattons are up to?

And when they find out can they please tell Hattons?

[dave_b]

Just received this email from Hattons:

Due to lower sales than projected, we have made the difficult decision to suspend our LMS Beyer Garratt 2-6-0 0-6-2T project in N gauge. All development work will be paused.

We will not cancel any pre-orders at this time but we will not be taking any further orders for these products.

Your pre-order will remain within your account. Please get in touch if we can help with anything else.

Disappointed, not surprised.

[JonMann]

Just saw this on instagram, then checked my email. Bit disappointed as I was looking forward to it.

[honk843]

Disappointed they did not appear last Christmas, a second disappointment this year and Hattons have lost their Graham Farish/E.F.E Rail/Bachman franchise as well. Does seem they are not too concerned about us. I notice that even the cancellation e-mail says OO gauge. People seem to think that only OO gauge exists.

[emjaybee]

Not surprised either.

They didn't exactly put much effort into trying to flog it. Beyond the first announcement there was very little, if any, promotion of it. No wonder it was low sales.

[Chuffington]

A great pity - I think it would have been a superb model - I had pre-ordered 3 of them.
Surely would have sold well in South Africa & Australia - maybe they should have secured overseas distributors ?

Glad I bought a couple of the old GEM/Fleetline kits and a few Graham Farish Poole made Black 5's now.

[Snowwolflair]

While I am sorry to see the failure of this venture, as I currently have three with sound I am not panicking 

In fact I was planning to sell one of my models which has sound based on the Skytrex kit and black 5 chassis but held off when this was announced.

If anyone is interested please contact me.

[longbow]

I'm not at all surprised. N Gauge is clearly a marginal market for steam outline locos and such an esoteric and expensive offering was always going to be a long way down most want-lists. What a shame that Farish and Dapol are squatting on most of the top contenders. 

[Dickydcc]

Still showing as a pre-order on the website.....

[honk843]

Still showing as a pre-order on the website....

Still showing as a pre-order on the website.....

They have said that they have suspended it rather than cancelled and if there is enough interest they will press on and that they have not cancelled orders. Just don't hold your breath- as if we would.

[njee20]

Yes it's hardly likely to spontaneously gain enough interest in suspension, given they gave it precisely no attention when it was 'live'. All a bit strange.

RHTT, or even a high spec 66 would probably have been a better bet, and something(s) they have CAD for.